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Comment on Using the Macintosh clipboard for text without formatting by David B.

David B. — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:54:58 +0000

Hmmm. I’ve never thought doing this is that big a deal. Most Mac applications have a “Paste and match style” option that does just that. My only gripe is that it isn’t the default action for Command-P. It should be, and there should be an alternate “Paste and preserve style” option. But that’s just me.

Comment on Hatch Green Chile Salsa by Labor Day means Pizza « donturn.com

Labor Day means Pizza « donturn.com — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:57:52 +0000

[...] pie was quite tasty, the key wasn’t the dough, it was the roasted red and yellow peppers (not hatch chiles, just peppers this time). If it looks a bit odd, note that I forgot to buy some cheese, but the [...]

Comment on Arlington, TX – the new HQ for the Legion of Doom? by donturn

donturn — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:05:46 +0000

BIZARRO HATE FOOTBALL!

Comment on Arlington, TX – the new HQ for the Legion of Doom? by Solomon Grundy

Solomon Grundy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:13 +0000

SOLOMON GRUNDY LIKE FOOTBALL!

Comment on Arlington, TX – the new HQ for the Legion of Doom? by donturn

donturn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:58:40 +0000

Out-nerded Elson? Is that even possible?

Comment on Arlington, TX – the new HQ for the Legion of Doom? by Bryce

Bryce — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:16:15 +0000

Heh. You just out-nerded Elson on that one. Well played, sir. Well played.

Comment on Knowledge Management Systems by Patrick DiDomenico

Patrick DiDomenico — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:08:15 +0000

I wish I lived in Texas so I could enroll in this class! Looks interesting. Looking forward to following things on the class blog
Patrick

Comment on The antennas that capture the universe by sean

sean — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:05:24 +0000

I’ve actually been up in one of those. I went to NMT, which is right by there. A friend of a friend worked at the VLA and got us in after hours. One of the dishes was out near the barn for maintenance so we climbed up into it. The hardware looked *ancient* After that we got a tour of the data-crunching facilities. Banks and banks of tape machines lined up like something out of a futuristic 70’s movie. Pretty laughable compared to its depiction in the movie Contact (which was filmed while was in school there.)

Sorry for the long comment, but I just spent about half an hour looking for my photos from inside the dish but couldn’t find them. One was really neat: you could see the mountains off in the distance, cropped below by the curving rim of the dish.

Good times.

Comment on Using the Macintosh clipboard for text without formatting by Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:51:52 +0000

I can’t help, other than to sympathize and nod vigorously in agreement. If it’s any consolation, Windows apps suffer from the same too-clever-by-half problem. Usually there isn’t even a keyboard short cut for “Paste Special…” to get to the unformatted option. Thank heavens for Linux…

Comment on SXSW: Monkey Warfare's Don McKellar by donturn

donturn — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:46:14 +0000

Hi Dan! Twitch City is now available on DVD here in the US.

Comment on SXSW: Monkey Warfare's Don McKellar by Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 20:00:19 +0000

Don McKellar rocks! I remember seeing the production trucks with “Twitch City” being filmed a block or two away from my apartment and wondering what the heck that was all about… then I actually saw it. I contacted CBC a year or two ago to see if I could buy the series on DVD, but no dice. They don’t own the rights. Bad CBC.

Comment on Tumlbr by donturn

donturn — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:02:00 +0000

I”m not sure I get it either. The complexity of functions seems to work against it.

Comment on Tumlbr by Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:52:51 +0000

I’ve been trying to figure out whether tumble-logs are a good thing or not.

Comment on If SXSW were Scooby Doo by donturn

donturn — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 21:08:45 +0000

Daphne = the hangers-on of sxswfilm folk?

Comment on If SXSW were Scooby Doo by John

John — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 19:42:06 +0000

Befuddled locals = Scooby
But who’s Daphne?

Comment on Video Games at the University of Texas by Richard

Richard — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:34:38 +0000

Cool, maybe I’ll eventually find a use for the big box of early PC and Commodore64 era games I have. Some still in shrink wrap.

Comment on Attack of the Ginger Creatures! by Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:05:42 +0000

Ooh, if I’d been there I wouldn’t have been able to resist adding feet to some of those fishies — Darwin cookies!

Comment on Getting Nothing Done? by lantzilla

lantzilla — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:26:46 +0000

Actually, Doing Nothing can be renamed, Someday Maybe.

Comment on 42 States by donturn

donturn — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:21:17 +0000

Now I’ve got Oregon covered. 43!

Comment on Taxonomy of tagging systems by McChris

McChris — Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:04:41 +0000

That’s actually a paper by some Yahoo! Research folks like Cameron Marlowe. Reading the paper I was sort of confused about the methods they used for the taxonomy of user behavior. They pull tag data out of Flickr and del.icio.us, but I don’t see how they can make such detailed claims about user motivations w/o actually talking to users.

Comment on The two best TV shows this week were really games by donturn

donturn — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:17:02 +0000

Even sharper than now? Is that possible?

Comment on The two best TV shows this week were really games by Bryce

Bryce — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:31:50 +0000

Hey Don – glad to see your thoughts on Daybreak. I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit (moreso than ‘Lost’ actually, cause the pacing of the thing really makes me believe that they’re gonna SOLVE it in one season.)

As for game recommendations, I hear that this will keep a fella like you sharp as a tack: http://www.brainage.com/launch/index.jsp

Comment on Salvation Pizza in Austin by ttrentham

ttrentham — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 17:23:33 +0000

The explosion of indie pizza joint is awesome. I still haven't hit Eastside Pies or Salvation yet, but of the two South Congress joints, I like Southside Flying better than Homeslice. Their Sundried Tomato Pesto pizza is awesome, although the middle tends to get a bit soggy at times. It's on South Congress almost to Oltorf, just before Nueva Onda and run by a longtime Guero's employee, Bill. Have either of you tried it?

Comment on Second post with Ecto by Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 14:50:23 +0000

Did you set the path in Ecto for the photos on the server side? Dealing with pictures is a little bit hinky in Ecto: you drag the photo into the editing pane, click on the resulting link; this brings up another window where you customize the image’s params. The key param here is “destination” which should be relative to WP’s root; in my setup, all the pictures go to ~/content/

On yours, images are apparently going to ~/wp-content/uploads/[yy]/[mm]/[dd]/ . Because the path is being generated on the WP side, I wonder if that is confusing Ecto. You can turn off the date hierarchy in WP, or you might in touch get with Adriaan

Comment on Salvation Pizza in Austin by Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:10:32 +0000

Salvation’s #1 is the new consensus favorite for my vegetarian daughters and me. It’s so good that we’ve even cut back on our long-standing custom of ordering take-out at Conan’s and stopping by Vulcan for a video while we’re there — although my eight year old keeps wanting us to order a sympathy pie from Conan’s anyway.

Comment on Casino Royale by Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:41:16 +0000

I can’t help myself. I even paid to see the last one.

Comment on Some other guy in some other DVD 15th Anniversary Edition is Mr. Black. by Bryce

Bryce — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:37:52 +0000

I checked this out in my local Target last night, and it’s really cool in person. I’m trying not to invest too much in DVDs anymore, but this one is tempting.

Comment on The Houston Chronicle adapts (quickly) by Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:49:51 +0000

Could their blog engine handle the load of all the Chron.com traffic? That’s some capacity planning.

(Or did I miss the point, and it wasn’t that the fire affected the Chron.com servers, but rather that the writers and editors can’t access the Chron CMS from Starbucks?)

Either way, yes, kudos to the quick footwork.

Comment on Some other guy in some other DVD 15th Anniversary Edition is Mr. Black. by Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 02:40:36 +0000

K-Billy’s Sounds of the 70s (aka the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack) was probably the best 99¢ cassette I ever bought in my life.

Comment on Moyers on America . The Net @ Risk on PBS online by McChris

McChris — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:36:41 +0000

WE want to see a post fleshing out your “Semantic Winter” idea.

Comment on Moyers on America . The Net @ Risk on PBS online by ttrentham

ttrentham — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:19:40 +0000

“No, I’m not sure why I wrote this with the royal ‘we’ perspective.”

Reading too much Austinist perhaps?

Comment on The Houston Chronicle adapts (quickly) by Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:27:39 +0000

The Houston Chronicle does some mighty fine blogging. In particular, I’m thinking of Dwight Silverman’s stuff. He marries the view and ethos of a blogger with the skill and training of a journalist. I think his blogging on the wireless issue during the last legislature and Katrina last year were stand-out great.

His blog is here: http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/

Comment on Pimp My Laptop by Richard

Richard — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:53:15 +0000

I like this uber geek Web 2.0 “personal tag cloud” treatment: http://www.flickr.com/photos/82768595@N00/248029883/

Comment on Schneier on Security: Human/Bear Security Trade-Off by donturn

donturn — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 04:18:37 +0000

I think I know what you mean. It's the old joke (re-told by the fabulous George, which goes a little bit like this: To survive a bear attack, all you need is a fork. When the bear attacks, stab your hiking buddy in the leg with a fork and run.

Comment on Schneier on Security: Human/Bear Security Trade-Off by davidnunez

davidnunez — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:24:21 +0000

I dunno. I kind of like security design wrt bears.

I don’t have to outrun the bear… I just have to outrun my dimwitted campmates.

(it’s why locking your car is better than not… even though it’s trivial for a bandit to break the security… I have a substantial delta by making sure my car isn’t the easiest in the parking garage to steal)

I guess we can take it a step forward:

I don’t have to outrun the bear… I just have to be less tasty than my plump campmates.

(i.e. don’t need to flash all my, as the kids say, “bling” when walking down dark alleys at night.)

Comment on Photo Caption Challenge – Seattle by Richard

Richard — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:06:41 +0000

No dear, I TOLD you I want the Space Needle over behind the ficus tree next to the end table with Grandma’s vase so that it lines up with the sofa. Do you listen to ANYTHING I say?

Comment on Photo Caption Challenge – Seattle by chip

chip — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:46:14 +0000

Yoink!

Comment on Seattle & Portland this week by davidnunez

davidnunez — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:43 +0000

you may appreciate the powell’s bookstore in Portland – there is a main store and then a technical-focused store. Go to the the techie one, but don’t expect to stay longer than an hour or so. (I found that the more interesting books were greater than 15 years old… everything more recent was already a bit stale / replacable by a good web search)

Comment on Labor Day means Pizza by donturn

donturn — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 01:44:14 +0000

I hear great things about grilled pizza, I bet it’s wonderful especially if you can get a subtle hint of a smoky flavor to it.

Comment on Labor Day means Pizza by Rob

Rob — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 00:00:09 +0000

I used to wonder about using a food processor for dough but finally began trying it recently. It has now become a no-brainer for great pizza dough.

I have great success with pizza stones but the best has been on my Weber grill!! I also don’t discriminate between the different types of flour. It’s even better since you’re not big on cheese. The bbq’d dough is great to eat by itself!

Don’t give up. I haven’t given Domino’s any money in a long time. The effort is worth it:—-)

Comment on Labor Day means Pizza by davidnunez

davidnunez — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:28:45 +0000

And why wasn’t I invited to help test? Humph.

Comment on Hatch Green Chile Salsa by donturn.com » Blog Archive » Labor Day means Pizza

donturn.com » Blog Archive » Labor Day means Pizza — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:54:54 +0000

[...] While this pie was quite tasty, the key wasn’t the dough, it was the roasted red and yellow peppers (not hatch chiles, just peppers this time). If it looks a bit odd note that I forgot to buy some cheese, but the majority of the time I don’t like most cheeses on pizza. [...]

Comment on Let's kill the CAPS LOCK KEY by Prentiss Riddle

Prentiss Riddle — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:13:38 +0000

I’m with you completely on the numeric keypad question.

I did in fact go to Fry’s and buy a compact keyboard sans keypad for the last PC I owned but I’ve never seen one for the Mac.

Comment on Let's kill the CAPS LOCK KEY by donturn

donturn — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:32:37 +0000

Correct!

The legend goes that the topmost drawer in a typesetter’s bureau, the UPPER drawer was traditionally where they kept the upper case letters.

You win the admiration of many, the scorn of the losing entries (what losing entries?) and secure knowledge that you embody a Harpold-like knowledge of the history of typesetting.

Oh, and a beverage next time we meet.

Comment on Let's kill the CAPS LOCK KEY by John

John — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:11:01 +0000

Upper case refers to the container of letterforms that typesetters would keep the capitals in. It was above the case for the small letters, hence “upper case”. What do I win?

Comment on Let's kill the CAPS LOCK KEY by Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:24:15 +0000

You can get a compact keyboard sans numeric keypad at Fry’s.

Comment on Buck Owens Birthday Bash was just that by Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:34:19 +0000

Happy belated Birthday, Buck. Here are a few songs from Confessions of a Buckaholic, a whole CD of original songs about your life and music. Unfortunately, you left this world before you had a chance to hear more than one of these songs, so, if your ear is turned towards earth, I’ll give you a couple of these songs now, on your first heavenly birthday:

4 Quarters Gets Me 2 Buck Songs
words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT (c)2006
http://www.drblt.net/music/fourquartersR.mp3

King of the Crystal Palace
words and music by Dr. Bruce L. Thiessen, aka Dr. BLT (c)2006
http://www.drblt.net/music/Kingcrystalpal.mp3

Sincerely Yours,
Bruce
aka Dr. BLT
King of Blog n Roll

Comment on Buck Owens Birthday Bash was just that by donturn

donturn — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:23:19 +0000

OK.

Yes.

For the record, let me state that the aforementioned boots were not, in fact, mine.

Comment on Buck Owens Birthday Bash was just that by Sean

Sean — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:47:24 +0000

Boot-tappin?

Comment on Blanks on a Blank! by George

George — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:44:44 +0000

I just went to the site. You were right! I just laughed my a$$ of at ‘Camel on a Wheelchair’. I think that is the best one. I also liked tarantula on a hovercraft. I just voted ‘camels’ with 100 points. Those guys got mad skills!! I’m still laughing at those camels. Classic!

Comment on Polka-dotted lawn in Austin by davidnunez

davidnunez — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:30:20 +0000

… everybody knows that you can’t clash patterns, don.

Comment on 42 States by Bryce

Bryce — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:46:13 +0000

Waittaminit? They make fun of West Virginia in Texas, too? I thought that was mostly an Ohio thing. You guys pick on the Okies, don’t ya?

Comment on 42 States by mantruc

mantruc — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:21:42 +0000

you mean you’ve never been to Maine?

lovely place, especially beautiful during fall

best
javier

Comment on Tagging Workshop at WWW 2006, Edinbugh by You’re It! » Blog Archive » Collaborative tagging workshop

You’re It! » Blog Archive » Collaborative tagging workshop — Wed, 24 May 2006 12:30:42 +0000

[...] Our own Don Turnbull posted from the Collaborative Tagging Workshop at WWW2006 in Edinburg, including a link to a rich set of 16 papers on collaborative tagging. Fire up your Adobe Readers! [...]

Comment on What I've learned in 36 Hours in Glasgow by Adam Rice

Adam Rice — Wed, 17 May 2006 22:36:30 +0000

I’ve always assumed everything in Scotland is exactly like it was in Trainspotting.

Comment on Open Source Workshop at UT Austin, May 2, 2006 by donturn

donturn — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:13:43 +0000

Thanks Keith, having known about the WCIT before it was coming to Austin, I forget others may not have heard of it. Here is a short article in Austin's local newspaper, the Austin American Stateman, about the upcoming WCIT.

Comment on Open Source Workshop at UT Austin, May 2, 2006 by Keith Instone

Keith Instone — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 12:01:31 +0000

In case others are like me and wondering "What the #@$!% is the World Congress on IT" - see wcit2006.org.

Comment on Slackers in the Workplace by Jordan

Jordan — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:24:10 +0000

This is very Gen X. I’ve found, in general, Gen Y has attempted to ignore this kind of snark (to whatever degree possible). Maybe this is because they’re just not old enough to be jaded yet, but I think it’s an issue of heightened lateral/cultural mobility.

Comment on The Best Blogging Newspapers in the U.S. by infobong.com » the blue plates

infobong.com » the blue plates — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:02:59 +0000

[...] Don pointed to this piece from the NYU journalism program ranking newspapers on their blog efforts. I’m ambivalent about non-professional blogs integrated into newspaper sites – if the content is that compelling why not have a blog on your own, rather than make money for the paper. It’s interesting to see Houston and San Antonio paper make the top ten, since Austin and Dallas seem to have a “tech city” reputation in Texas. Perhaps Austin and Dallas already have entrenched local blogging cultures, so newspaper efforts go ignored by potential bloggers. [...]

Comment on pre-SXSW Happy Hour this Thursday 6-8 at The Cedar Door by davidnunez

davidnunez — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:52:08 +0000

Should be lots of fun! See you there.